A collection of lyric sketches and stories by Ivan Turgenev appeared thanks to the occasion. Ivan Panaev, publisher of Sovremennik, placed Turgenev’s story «Khor and Kalinych» in his magazine. And so that the public did not judge the novice author harshly, he added: «From the notes of a hunter.» The story was a success, and Turgenev composed several more, combining them under the same general name. In the story «Bezhin Meadow» the author so skillfully describes nature that later, largely due to this, the expression «Turgenev’s landscape» will appear. But the plot, it would seem, is so uncomplicated … The July day leaned towards sunset, and the boys took their horses out into the night. They sit by the fire and tell each other rural beliefs …
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